Life can be truly rotten, but words are among the consolations available to us. We spend a lot of time marvelling at works of ...

Some argue that our lives derive meaning from our ability to see them as an ongoing story. So is telling our own life story ...

Difficulties such as loss and depression often make people question how their lives can be meaningful. Sometimes they seek answers in mystical sayings such as that everything happens for a reason and ...

Scott Samuelson, a professor of philosophy at Kirkwood Community College, will appear at Prairie Lights tonight to read his latest book from the University of Chicago Press, Seven Ways of Looking at ...

It is a cliché about philosophers that they ponder the meaning of life. They don’t. In the David Norton Memorial Lecture, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16 in the University of Delaware’s Gore Hall, ...

Philosophy, he shows us, is not about abstractly pondering death, but preparing to meet it with dignity — just as Kalanithi had. In the end, the greatest challenge for both the physician and the ...

Research in language philosophy has long interrogated the interplay between normativity and meaning. Central debates focus on how linguistic practices are governed by norms that not only delineate ...

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...